Battle of the North Cape

Quando

26 de dez. de 1943

Tipo

Batalha

Coordenadas

72.52° N, 28.25° E

Description

1943 arctic naval battle of World War II

Naval

sim

War

World War II

1943 naval battle during the Arctic campaign of WWII

The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle on 26 December 1943, part of the Arctic campaign. The German battleship Scharnhorst sailed to implement Operation Ostfront, an attack on Arctic convoys carrying supplies from the western Allies to the Soviet Union. Scharnhorst was brought to battle and sunk by the battleship HMS Duke of York and its cruisers and destroyers.

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